文學導讀 week 2

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flash·back  [flash-bak] 

noun

1.

a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.

2.

an event or scene so inserted.

3.

Also called flashback hallucinosis. Psychiatry.

a.

the spontaneous recurrence of visual hallucinations or other effects of a drug, as LSD, long after the use of the drug has been discontinued.

b.

recurrent and abnormally vivid recollection of a traumatic experience, as a battle, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations.

fore·shad·ow

  [fawr-shad-oh, fohr-]  

verb (used with object)

to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.

In medias res 

(Latin "in the midst of things") is the literary and artistic narrative technique of relating a story from the midpoint, rather than the beginning.